skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have a Renpho scale, the way it works for me is that when I step on the scale it turns it on and connects to my device via bluetooth which wakes the app. The weight is captured and synced in the background to both the Renpho cloud service as well as the local Health Connect.

I bought a Wifi scale specifically so I don't have to have my phone with bluetooth on, nearby. Does the BT-connection open the app itself, or just initiate a sync in a background service?
I was under the impression that it is impossible to access Google Health Connect in the background – I get access-errors in my log when I start my own app from the IDE while the screen is off.

> [...] they get a lot of write storage to health connect for free from the API

Is this really an issue that is solved by using Google Health Connect?

> As I understand it the access is 30 days prior to the first permission given.

You are right, I edited my original post accordingly.
Debian 64-bit-time transition
> "Not real communism"

Because the term has been perverted by both anti and pro crowds.

Capitalism isn't equal to free market (arguably Adam Smith was first to give scathing rejection of capitalism)

Communism isn't equal with state control and planned economy, no matter how much Imperial Russian traumatised politicians insisted on everyone.
The author seems to be paid to write this, and other articles, he's probably on the payroll of a 3 letter agency.
I suppose it all hinges on whether Microsoft takes a hard line against executives failing to honestly disclose security incidents. Ideally they'd treat it as a form of fraud.
Great idea to go with credits instead of subscription. If more startups would adopt the model, they'd probably get a lot more traction.
Just one nitpick: the DOM is not updated by CSS here, only the value of the CSS variable is. (It will indeed cause style recalc and paint though, and result in poor performance as we can see with the demos.)
I believe AAC is really popular in Europe too (which I suppose could just be considered another form of concrete, but it provides decent insulation, making it more suitable to colder climates).
I've always found it ridiculous that Sony is allowed to sell their consoles and games in my county without allowing me to create a PSN account. They even sell the digital PS5, which REQUIRES a PSN account to get any games.

And then, even if you break their TOS and create an account in another country, you're still constantly inconvenienced - you can't pay for games using your local payment method, for example, and a useful Playstation mobile app is not even listed in the local app store.

IMO they should either provide the same level of service in all countries, or be forced to charge significantly less when selling their hardware in unsupported countries.
The same way its 'perfectly acceptable' to use a Canon to kill a mosquito.
How would removing players from steam push their numbers? Especially since it is obvious from the charts that the removed countries contributed almost nothing to the active playerbase?
This movie is a lot of fun, and a great window into its moment.
I’m not sure whether this is satire or not.
https://direct.playstation.com/en-us/buy-games/helldivers-2-...

Do I need a PSN account to play PlayStation games on PC?

No, you currently do not need a PSN account to enjoy PlayStation Studios games on PC, but you will need a Steam account to redeem your voucher code. Some of our PlayStation Studios titles also offer incentives for linking your Steam and PSN accounts.
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When I saw marketing material that looked like a carbon copy of Destiny I knew what to expect

The game that plays you, too
AI Was Stolen [video]
...unless you have an "all digital" console like the Xbox S.
HQ location means nothing. It's still being controlled by Tokyo. If Anything, SE will be the sacrificial lamb that will be used to be sent to the slaughter house.

They did this with the mobile division in Sweden. Blame, cut and relocate.
There is a huge difference between trying to counter institutional prejudice in order to improve the quality of the student body and work being done, and whatever you think a religious “pledge of allegiance” is.

A pledge to God?

The mishandling of DEI doesn’t invalidate the need to fix broken systems which fail to select the best people instead of those who score highest in easily gamed and inherently biased metrics.
Unenforced rules are a murky area. It's not as clear-cut as you suggest.

Another issue that has been raised is that Sony is notoriously incompetent with customer data.
And now they've added the problem of some roads having two names. Such as the example in the article's first photo.
A certain group of people don't like to keep memories, at least inconvenient memories to them.
Check who's been fighting the Internet Archive for several years and you'll understand who this people are.
You mean Sony Interactive Entertainment, Sony Entertainment's HQ is in New York.

Both have a Japanese CEO, we blame Musk for Twitter's faults, so we blame them for PlayStation's.
I'd argue this is an essential purchase if you live in storm country. The loud "beep beep beep" of the weather radio has become part of the usual sounds of spring for me.

Glad you made it out of the tornado intact. I'm in Kansas and I really dislike this time of year.
The somewhat bigger issue is that PSN doesn’t support all countries that Steam does apparently.

In the end I suspect affected players will get a refund.

It isn’t as big a deal as the gamers are making it seem.
Wikipedia uses a “文Ａ” icon; IMHO far better than a flag. What flag would you expect to see?

As for finding the language in the menu, listening a language in the foreign language seems like bad design too. The menu should list “English” as an option!

See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language#/languages
The git book has a good section on the intervals of git which helps you understand the program overall:

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Plumbing-and-Po...
Depends how good their next model is, and if they prevent leaks and departures so they can prolong the lead for an undetermined amount of time.
Your choice.
This Woke stuff apparently has its roots in communist party propaganda
https://www.hoover.org/research/beijings-woke-propaganda-war...

I've submitted that link to the HN front page by the way. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40263411
Swing ships with the JDK, so whatever native dependencies are required, application developers don't need to care about them, unless they are making use of jlink, and to this day many still prefer to push to some JRE being installed, than making use of jlink and jpackage.

Which is why alternative JDK distributions still offer JRE variants, while officially from Oracle's side one should either use plain JDK or jlink/jpackage.
This is also useful: https://v4.chriskrycho.com/exploring-four-languages.html
There's a thing called vpn.
Good old Chatty Jeeps
Every Helldivers 2 player on Steam needs to create a Playstation Network account now, even if they don't own a Playstation. Without PSN account Steam users won't be able to play the game in a couple of days.
Do. This is predatory, go play a different game.
And not just that. They required PSN accounts on countries where PSN is not available (and using a VPN to create it goes against the ToS, and people get banned). So in those countries they have effectively banned you from playing the game you purchased weeks ago.
> Valve says that Steam is avaible in 237 countries. there are territories that are considered countries by valve that arent recognized by the world as being their own separate country like Taiwan

From Google, 2017.
Having the wrong symbol for something is worse than the inconvenience of not having a symbol.
Can someone explain the logic behind not supporting all countries by default? What does Sony have to lose by letting people in tiny countries buy their games?
If asked to make icons for languages, whet else would you even use instead of flags? Icons help find things faster, and the users are used to seeing flags next to language labels.

In some cases, a single flag indeed does not sufficiently describe an option. In this case, combine, like, two flags, e.g. (flag of Spain)(flag of Columbia), or invent some other clever icon to disambiguate selection.
Not necessarily "more likely" but "better" in some "loss" sense.

It could be "more likely" in the jars example where estimates may convey some relevant information for each other. But consider this example from wikipedia:

"Suppose we are to estimate three unrelated parameters, such as the US wheat yield for 1993, the number of spectators at the Wimbledon tennis tournament in 2001, and the weight of a randomly chosen candy bar from the supermarket. Suppose we have independent Gaussian measurements of each of these quantities. Stein's example now tells us that we can get a better estimate (on average) for the vector of three parameters by simultaneously using the three unrelated measurements."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stein%27s_example#Example
The company was founded by Americans, too, and throughout its history it's almost always had strong ties to the US.
I'm sorry to tell you this but your article isn't very good at explaining Git. And the commands you're using to demonstrate aren't helpful either. You're just replacing one set of assumptions with another.

Yes to teaching Git internals to people but really it should start visually. I've taught Git to dozens of people with no or little technical background and this is how they get it. You start with some variation of "everything is an object" and then go on to "branches are just labels" for these objects.

There was a really great talk where the speaker used wood blocks and pegs to teach Git internals to an audience. I can't find it now, I wish I could.

Games like Oh My Git! and tools like https://learngitbranching.js.org are also very effective.
Yep, you have to be very careful when printing with aluminium powder.

An unfortunate example: "Two Workers Killed and Two Injured in Explosion at 3D Printer Plant" https://dustsafetyscience.com/dust-collector-explosion-shang...
Worthwhile to note that an alternative magnetic microscopy technique called MFM (Magnetic Force Microscopy) has been around for at least a few decades now, with resolutions down to 10 nm.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_force_microscope
> more than half a decade out of date

Yes... but as great as vcpkg is, it's still not ubiquitous enough that everything is on it, in the same way that everything is available for Rust via Cargo, or for Python via pip, or for Java/typescript via NPM.

So submodules are still used quite a lot.
This article casually passes over business interests being bribed and threatened with losing business by China and gets stuck into the real villains, the Black Panthers!?

And quickly following up that absurdity by suggesting anyone who uses the word "progressive" is following a Chinese communist playbook.
> :... going balls to the wall for autonomy is a blindingly obvious move. Everything else is like variations on a horse carriage."

Yes, obvious, he's said that for years now. I get the horse analogy, but I also know that horses can do full self-driving better than a Tesla.
Another example of Google inability in anything but Search (and even there I find it lower and lower in quality these days.)
No, I mean in the sense given on the page (I should've included the parenthetical in my quote)

> (e.g. a random permutation of all 32-bit integers)

Since they only use bijective primitives, it's trivially "perfect" in the "perfect hash function" sense.

To elaborate further on the definition I was going off (which may well not be what the author meant):

> A PRF is considered to be good if its behavior is indistinguishable from a truly random function. Therefore, given an output from either the truly random function or a PRF, there should be no efficient method to correctly determine whether the output was produced by the truly random function or the PRF.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudorandom_function_family
I find the reaction to be appropriate, a large amount of people can't play the game anymore. What else would you expect? "I paid a considerable amount of money for the game and now I can't play it anymore, but the graphics were very nice on the small amount of time I played, 5 stars"?
Why would the player count take a hit? The game is still playable, so people want to play the game until they can't anymore, assuming the decision isn't reversed.

The impact has not even happened yet, as the news was released a few days ago, just before the weekend; the majority of players are probably not even aware of it yet. After a week or two, we will see what the true impact really is.
And by "just", I mean, here you go:

https://github.com/fragmede/hn-open-in-new-tab
Actually it is more like having both Roman and Arabic Numerals on the same source code, depending on the age of the project, and the C and C++ education background of the team.
> I don't know which of 语言设定 and 重置设备 will allow me to set the language back to English.

That's why the languages should be presented in their "own" native form (name and alphabet), at least additionally. Which
- using the native form and the translation in the current active locale - Apple does, btw., so at least on MacOS your problem does not exist.
There are guidelines for street gazeteers here:

https://www.agi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/BS7666Guid...

4.4.1 Street names
The designated street name is usually to be found on the name plate on the street.
However, these may not always be correct, and may differ between the ends of the street. Unofficial street names are ones that have not been adopted by the appropriate Highways Authority but may be in common usage, e.g. "The Great North Road".
Street names, whether designated or unofficial, should be recorded in full.
Abbreviations and punctuation should not be used unless they appear in the designated name, e.g. "Dr Newton's Way". Only single spaces should be used.

So I think all its saying gazetteer editors should not add punctuation if its “missing” from the designated place name.

Punctuation is fine if it already part of the place name.

I think the intention is to preserve the original place name.

So the council is wrong to blame the specification.
Australia removed apostrophes from all official place names back in 1966, leading to names like Surfers Paradise, Princes Highway and Wisemans Ferry. Given the date, I doubt computing was a major consideration though.
> the player count did not take any obvious hit

> on steam the delisting seems to have affected almost no active players

in most cases, if you bought a game on steam before it got delisted, you can still play it. even if you uninstalled it in between, you can re-download it.

the actual impact won't be fully visible until May 30th or June 4th since that's when they will start blocking access to the game for players who didn't link their accounts[1].

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/553850/view/41968685...
Here's an AM/FM/Shortwave for $10 [1]. This is not an endorsement as I haven't used this model. I personally have a Tecsun radio bought for around $30 that does a great job. Will be useful in an emergency. And about once a year, I play the game of "what's the farthest AM station I can receive?" Kinda fun.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Portable-Shortwave-Operated-Reception...
In hindsight my comment was ill-considered. I'm removing it.
What about answering and closing the 140+ issues this project has on github. Or are you only providing support to paid users? Using the open source flag for profit without actually provide any support or fixes for several months isn't ok.
Clearly you don't work in the Government or Education sector (but I repeat myself).

It's possible we're on a trajectory to become the South Africa of the south.
> There is a huge difference between trying to counter institutional prejudice in order to improve the quality of the student body and work being done.

This is the Trojan Horse, just like the fundamentalists coming to spread peace and love in society of course.

Fortunately, people are judged by outcome and action, not stated intention, and we can see DEI has failed in this regard.
Fun fact: Roddy Piper's line was originally intended for a match against wrestling fighter Playboy Buddy Rose (1952-2009). (Source: "In Search of Darkness" documentary.)
Wrong symbols are everywhere. Ever seen a save button with a floppy disk icon? Its not about pedantic accuracy -- if something works, do not touch it.
Both versions is the correct answer, like in the screenshot in the article.
Not necessarily. It completely depends on the situation.

As another example: gendered bathrooms. The icons used on gendered bathrooms have a woman wearing a skirt, and a man wearing trousers. These icons are "wrong": a man can wear a skirt, and a woman can wear trousers (in fact, nowadays most women do). It's nonetheless certainly more useful to have a "wrong" icon than none at all in this case.
It's reasonable to ask for that and it would probably be up to a local government agency to enforce such a rule.

(In fact Meta's Quest was not available in my country for a few years until Meta changed their mind and removed the need to have a Facebook account as well).

To make Sony care about small countries it would be best for them to band together and act as a group on that. It must hurt them economically
They get a cut of physical media sales too, and studios need their approval for each title they publish.
I personally had no idea that icon let you change the language of articles (a concept I explicitly looked for before).
Still confused at what the icon is actually supposed to mean.
But we are talking about using flags of countries for languages, which is a totally different "kind of wrong".
I live in Switzerland and I’m very used to seeing 3 to five options with a Swiss flag: German, French, Italian, English, Romansh (rarely). I don’t see it as a wrong use of the flag.

One is the locale and the other is the language. The flag serves as a lookup index.
The wood in this case is itself a "composite" though it may well be better in some ways than carbon fibre based composites, it feels a bit like promoting a natural cleaning product because it doesn't have "chemicals".
From a quick skim of the man page, I see no mention of zeroing any swap space associated with the deallocated memory (whether currently, or previously active).

Other that "make sure your systems are encrypting swap", does anyone have some insight into this issue?
Even more important, you know that GPT-4 will probably also not crack it. Which is why the SOTA is not terribly interesting. The delta between GPT-4 and the competition has been closing but why anyone would assume that this is a trend and that it would continue with GPT-4.5 to competition, or GPT-5 to competition instead of the other way around is a mystery to me.

I am not saying it could not be true. But extrapolating from differences between current bad models to a future with better models is weird, specially when everyone seems to pretty much agree that scale is the difference between the two and scale is hard and exclusive.
It doesn't assume the compiler is deterministic, because you don't need to use the result for verification, you can just use the result.
> they have to sit by and watch while their player base implodes because of a Sony edict.

Happens all the time. Sony is the publisher. A lot of publishers "ruin" games.
The should be presented mainly, mostly and primarily in their native form. The form for currently set language should be additional. It's a no-brainer which makes demand for using flags unnecessary, almost making it absurd to use them.

But, wait. 语言设定 is "Language settings" and 重置设备 is "Reset device". So the problem here is a bit different, right?
77M ops/s ± 0.31%; 1.3B ops/s ± 0.17% for Safari. Difference is huge

800M ops/s ± 0.5%; 837M ops/s ± 0.32% for Chrome on the same computer.
with arguably inverse political implications
> Icons help find things faster, [...]

I _highly_ doubt that being able to input the name of the language (or country or whatever), both in its native and translated form, is slower than scrolling through all possible icons.
Keyboard layouts might be linked to specific countries, but language usage extends far beyond national borders. For example, Russian is spoken by communities in the US who may not identify with the Russian flag (or even stand against it), and French is widely used in places like Niger, where the French flag may hold little relevance. Thus, associating languages strictly with country flags can overlook the diverse and global nature of language communities.
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Interesting! However the company which runs the official gazetteer has advice, and the reasoning is nonsense:

>GeoPlace does not advise that councils include or remove punctuation in official naming or on the street name plate. Street naming and numbering is a council policy decision.

>However, the Data Entry Conventions documentation does state that GeoPlace would prefer not receive data (including street names) with punctuation.

>This is for two main reasons:

> machine readability – punctuation can be misinterpreted by computers

> usability – for example, if loaded into say an emergency service command and control system and a caller provides a street name, the search will be faster if the search is entered and returned without punctuation.

https://www.geoplace.co.uk/street-naming-and-numbering/guida...
I'd be curious to see their list. They have almost 40 more countries than most agencies would consider to exist.
Sounds very similar to the paid data processing opt-out Facebook does now. That actually might be an interesting case.
Exactly, that's also how Apple (I'm starting to feel bad to constantly mention them) does it, the native form is "normal font face", the translated one is in lighter grey.
I get the strong sense you understand neither ITAR nor this article. Good luck!
What an insanely wrong take.

It literally establishes that he will shoot first and ask questions later. It casts Solo in a completely different light than as simply a guy who is trying to survive and willing to skirt the law.

The original Solo is dangerous and reckless. The neutered one isn’t.
It's quite bold to predict the future for the next 100 years.
Lol, UBI is precisely money directly onto the people's hands.
Haven't you heard of GiveDirecly NGO?
Try searching for SIM card on olx or ebay
> suddenly has a requirement

I think players were already asked to link their accounts since the game's release, but it was optional (in the sense that you could easily skip that step).

also, for further context, here's the official announcement that sparked this whole thing: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/553850/view/41968685...
It's a full frame equivalent. I don't think anyone is trying to use this on a full frame camera.
This argument gets brought up repeatedly on HN (most recently on Patrick’s last post about credit card rewards). The counter argument is that there are costs associated with securing transactions and fraud prevention that do benefit all credit card users. The “tax” does result in a downstream benefit.
Oh, 70s gas station giveaways were numerous. Towels(!). All sorts of games (match two halves and win). Ways to establish brand uniqueness when price competition did not really exist.
So, if I'm interpreting this correctly, if the current birth rate is sustained, which I imagine is the best one can hope for, and people live on average to 75, then Ukraine will eventually be a country of 7.5 million people?
Would be crazy if there was a ruling against Google just as OpenAI releases a "Google killer" web search.